Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars
American wars and the culture of violence
Strategic bombing in the Second World War
The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting
The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility
The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy
Iraq : the twenty years' war
Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier
Three atrocities and the rules of engagement
Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic
The epistemology of war.